Overview
- WHO, which updated its figures Friday, reports 10 cases tied to the cruise ship outbreak including three deaths, with eight laboratory confirmed and one earlier U.S. case reclassified as negative.
- Six evacuees landed in Western Australia Friday and entered a three‑week stay at the Bullsbrook quarantine center, with authorities considering how to manage the remainder of the 42‑day monitoring window.
- CDC officials said Thursday that 41 people across 16 U.S. states are under monitoring with no confirmed U.S. infections, including passengers quarantined at Nebraska and Emory facilities.
- Sequencing centers in several countries shared genomes and found no changes that would increase transmissibility or severity, and WHO officials continue to assess the overall risk to the public as low.
- French authorities confirmed the separate illness on the Ambition cruise was viral gastroenteritis likely caused by norovirus, so they eased on‑board restrictions and ruled out any link to the Hondius cases.